Phonetic explanations for the infrequency of voiced sibilant affricates across languages
Identifieur interne : 000C70 ( Istex/Corpus ); précédent : 000C69; suivant : 000C71Phonetic explanations for the infrequency of voiced sibilant affricates across languages
Auteurs : Marzena Ygis ; Susanne Fuchs ; Laura L. KoenigSource :
- Laboratory Phonology [ 1868-6346 ] ; 2012-10-26.
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- Acoustical society, Aerodynamic, Affricate, Affrication, Articulation, Articulatory, Assibilation, Asymmetry, Bulgarian, Closure, Consonant, Coronal, Devoicing, Dissertation, Durational, Factor comparisons, Frication, Fricative, German speakers, Gruyter, Halle, Hamann, Hirose, Infrequency, Intraoral, Intraoral pressure, Intraoral pressure peak, Jakobson, Koenig, Laryngeal, Lombardi, Maddieson, Marzena, Medial, Obstruent, Ohala, Phonation, Phoneme, Phonemic inventories, Phonetically, Phonetics, Phonological, Phonologically, Pmax, Pmcmc, Postalveolar, Shanghai, Sibilant, Sibilant affricates, Strident, Supraglottal, Supralaryngeal, Susanne, Telfer, Typological, Velar, Voiceless, Voiceless affricates, Voiceless counterparts, Voiceless obstruents, Ygis.
Abstract
This paper shows that several typologically unrelated languages share the tendency for voiced sibilant affricates to be infrequent or missing altogether. Phonological processes examined in the paper illustrate that (1) voiceless stops undergo affrication more readily than voiced ones, and (2) voiced affricates deaffricate more commonly than voiceless ones, thereby contributing to the asymmetry in frequency between voiced vs. voiceless affricates. Phonetic properties of the sounds may explain these patterns. Affricates in general require complex control over supralaryngeal apertures, and they appear to have long durations in many languages. Long duration and complete oral closure at the beginning of affricates contribute to a buildup of intraoral pressure which impedes phonation. An aerodynamic experiment of obstruents, including affricates, was carried out for Polish and German, languages which differ in their realization of the stop voicing contrast (viz., voicing vs. aspiration). Voiced affricates in Polish had significantly longer voicing than in German; in medial position, they also had shorter durations and lower peak pressure values. We suggest that languages having voiced affricates in their phoneme inventory may tend to limit duration and intraoral pressure buildup in these sounds to allow vocal-fold vibration to continue.
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Voiced affricates in Polish had significantly longer voicing than in German; in medial position, they also had shorter durations and lower peak pressure values. We suggest that languages having voiced affricates in their phoneme inventory may tend to limit duration and intraoral pressure buildup in these sounds to allow vocal-fold vibration to continue.</p></abstract></article-meta></front></article></istex:document></istex:metadataXml><mods version="3.6"><titleInfo lang="en"><title>Phonetic explanations for the infrequency of voiced sibilant affricates across languages</title></titleInfo><titleInfo type="alternative" lang="en" contentType="CDATA"><title>Phonetic explanations for the infrequency of voiced sibilant affricates across languages</title></titleInfo><name type="personal" displayLabel="corresp"><namePart type="given">Marzena</namePart><namePart type="family">Żygis</namePart><affiliation>Żygis Marzena</affiliation><role><roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm></role></name><name type="personal"><namePart type="given">Susanne</namePart><namePart type="family">Fuchs</namePart><affiliation>Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany</affiliation><role><roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm></role></name><name type="personal"><namePart type="given">Laura L.</namePart><namePart type="family">Koenig</namePart><affiliation>Long Island University, New York, USA</affiliation><affiliation>Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, USA</affiliation><role><roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm></role></name><typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource><genre type="research-article" displayLabel="research-article"></genre><originInfo><publisher>De Gruyter Mouton</publisher><dateIssued encoding="w3cdtf">2012-10-26</dateIssued><dateCreated encoding="w3cdtf">2012-11-21</dateCreated><copyrightDate encoding="w3cdtf">2012</copyrightDate></originInfo><language><languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">eng</languageTerm><languageTerm type="code" authority="rfc3066">en</languageTerm></language><physicalDescription><internetMediaType>text/html</internetMediaType></physicalDescription><abstract lang="en">This paper shows that several typologically unrelated languages share the tendency for voiced sibilant affricates to be infrequent or missing altogether. Phonological processes examined in the paper illustrate that (1) voiceless stops undergo affrication more readily than voiced ones, and (2) voiced affricates deaffricate more commonly than voiceless ones, thereby contributing to the asymmetry in frequency between voiced vs. voiceless affricates. Phonetic properties of the sounds may explain these patterns. Affricates in general require complex control over supralaryngeal apertures, and they appear to have long durations in many languages. Long duration and complete oral closure at the beginning of affricates contribute to a buildup of intraoral pressure which impedes phonation. An aerodynamic experiment of obstruents, including affricates, was carried out for Polish and German, languages which differ in their realization of the stop voicing contrast (viz., voicing vs. aspiration). Voiced affricates in Polish had significantly longer voicing than in German; in medial position, they also had shorter durations and lower peak pressure values. We suggest that languages having voiced affricates in their phoneme inventory may tend to limit duration and intraoral pressure buildup in these sounds to allow vocal-fold vibration to continue.</abstract><note type="author-notes">Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany</note><relatedItem type="host"><titleInfo><title>Laboratory Phonology</title></titleInfo><genre type="journal">journal</genre><identifier type="ISSN">1868-6346</identifier><identifier type="eISSN">1868-6354</identifier><identifier type="PublisherID">labphon</identifier><part><date>2012</date><detail type="volume"><caption>vol.</caption><number>3</number></detail><detail type="issue"><caption>no.</caption><number>2</number></detail><extent unit="pages"><start>299</start><end>336</end></extent></part></relatedItem><identifier type="istex">792CA54E7C026C9F472DCDA558A2ADF20A76E13B</identifier><identifier type="DOI">10.1515/lp-2012-0016</identifier><identifier type="ArticleID">lp-2012-0016</identifier><identifier type="pdf">lp-2012-0016.pdf</identifier><accessCondition type="use and reproduction" contentType="copyright">©[2012] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston</accessCondition><recordInfo><recordContentSource>De Gruyter</recordContentSource></recordInfo></mods></metadata><serie></serie></istex></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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